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{{Infobox Biography
| subject_name =Pedro de Alba
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| image_size =196px
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| date_of_birth =[[1762]]
| place_of_birth =[[Wikipedia:Vélez-Málaga|Vélez-Málaga]]
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| spouse =[[Isabella Adelaide Rastel de Rocheblave]]<br/>[[Victoria Lessasier]]
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| children =[[Pedro de Alba de Rocheblave]]<br/>Two others
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'''Pedro de Alba''' (anglicized '''Peter Alba''') was a citizen of [[Third Spanish period|Spanish Pensacola]] who remained in the city following its [[Transfer of Florida|transfer to the United States]]. He became president of the [[Pensacola Board of Aldermen]] in [[1822]] and served as [[Mayor of Pensacola|the city's mayor]] in [[1824]].
Born in [[1762]] in [[Wikipedia:Vélez-Málaga|Vélez-Málaga]], de Alba immigrated to Pensacola in the early 1780s, not long after it was [[Siege of Pensacola|captured from the British]], and began work at the Pensacola hospital as an orderly.
He was married on [[August 10]], [[1784]] to [[Isabella Adelaide Rastel de Rocheblave]]. They had three children together, one of whom survived, [[Pedro de Alba de Rocheblave]].
In [[1786]] de Alba was named majordomo in charge of admissions at the hospital.
In [[1810]] Isabella Adelaide died, and in [[1813]] de Alba remarried to [[Victoria Lessasier]], widow of Lt. Col. [[José Noriega]].
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[[Category:Mayors of the City of Pensacola|Alba, Pedro de]] [[Category:Citizens of Spanish Pensacola|Alba, Pedro de]]
